10 Great Movie Opening Titles

Opening titles are a combination of visual and music at the service of the movie. Sometimes they are a piece of art themselves. Here is a list of some of the greatest:

1- WATCHMEN


2- 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY


3- ZOMBIELAND


4- LORD OF WAR


5- CASSINO ROYALE (2006)


6- AMERICAN PSYCHO


7- SPIDERMAN 2


8- FIGHT CLUB


9- GHOST IN THE SHELL


10- JUNO


I'm very indecisive to put here links for the Youtube, as these are constantly being taken down. Just do a quick search there with the name of the movie and the words “intro”, “opening credits” or “opening titles” and here you go.

Other honorable mentions: Shrek, Eurotrip.

Donnie Darko – Ten Years Later

With the Blu-Ray of Donnie Darko in my hands I though “Wow, let's see this beauty now in Director's Cut and high definition”.

After a couple of minutes I just found out that Richard Kelly not only made some terrible movies recently (Southland Tales – one of the worst movies I ever saw and The Box – which is plainly bad) but managed to ruin his masterpiece. With lots of horrible new special effects, unnecessary mystic mumble jumble (has he convinced himself that there is truth in the crazy things of the movie?) and even a changed sound track (which was just perfect), this Director's Cut managed to transform an otherwise fantastic movie into a pile of crap.

Was the hand of the producers heavy enough to restrain a wild director before or is the genius losing his mind over time? I don't know!

After 1 hour of torture, I had to switch the movie to the old good Theater Version. Thanks God! The original movie is still great! I'm still terrified by the bunny Frank. The final song Mad World still brings me to tears. And I still fall in love with Jena Malone.

So here is the tip: watch Donnie Darko. It's beautiful. But stay away of this Director's Cut. And you, Richard, keep your hands out of this wonderful movie.

Ahh teenager love...

The world is going to end.

The sinister look of Donnie... oh my, is that Seth Rogen?

Game: Castle Vox

For those who don't know, this is a very simple and interesting game - and you can play the basic maps for free. Castle Vox

The most fun feature is the Map Editor. Here are some maps I made for the game:

World War I

Empires

Conquistadores

Self-Quote: Self-Help

All this self-help business is based on the false idea that we don't live as we should because we don't know what's best for us, and not because we don't want what's best for us.

Self-Quote: Religion

The men created religion to control God.

CONSOLE GAMES

I don't have a video game console since my Intellivision in the early 80s.

My two preferred game genders are First Person Shooters and Strategy (Real Time, Turn Based, any) and luckily, both suck in console.

They are trying to make Strategy games for consoles, like Civilization V. I hope they never succeed, because all games that goes from PC to consoles became over simplified and limited. Want examples? Civilizations series -> Civilizations Revolution; Battlefield early series (1942, Vietnam, BF2) -> BF Bad Company series (and - I hope not - BF3).

I recently bought BF Bad Company 2 complete and, being an old school BF Vietnam player, I was terribly disappointed with it. OK, the graphics are perfect. OK, there is a single-player campaign. But the multiplayer has only a very few vehicles (when BF1942, BFV and BF2 had dozens different vehicles each). Either they are too lazy or too greedy - why making a deep game if you can make a new one next year and sell like hell?

Console = fast food of games.

BTW, damn you game industry for creating the DLCs. Not long ago, the developers continued to improve the games for free, releasing new maps, weapons, units, even game modes, in each update. Now you need to pay U$ 2.00 for a freaking new character texture?! Are you kidding?

PS: of course they make these new console-oriented games impossible to mod. If you let people making great new free stuff for your game you can't sell crappy DLCs. This business is twisted.

PARTY DUNGEON: THE SCOUT

PARTY DUNGEON
Dungeons & Dragons Online meets Team Fortress 2


Class: Monk
Race: Halfling

A fast-running and fast-talking Halfling from Stormreach with a penchant for brawling and grievous bodily harm, the Scout flies like a butterfly and stings like a bat to the face. The fastest of all the classes, his speed and ability to double jump will leave slower opponents spinning. This, coupled with his volley of Darts, makes the Scout ideal at hit and run tactics, allowing him to inflict massive close-range damage before dashing away to safety. Not content with only one way to harass his foes, the Scout can also equip his trusty Sling to stun opponents with long-range bullets.

*Party Dungeon is a TF2 (my former passion) parody I'm making of DDO (my current addiction).

Other characters:

- Heavy = heavy armored Dwarf Fighter with a huge repeating crossbow;
- Pyro = Human Evocator specialized in - guess what - fire;
- Soldier = Human Paladin with a sacred sword;
- Engineer = Gnome Artificer with Sentry Constructs, Magic Chests and Dimension Doors;
- Sniper = Elf Archer (duh!);
- Medic = Human Cleric;
- Spy = Half-Elf Rogue.